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sociolect
noun
The variant of language used by a social group such as a socioeconomic class, an ethnic group, an age group, etc.
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So far there has been no incidence of the white-girl-patois, a sociolect formed by a Hold My Gold-style daddy's girl hip-hop re-appropriation and kewt post-Valley Girl intonation and this new, disgusting element of street-style video-blogging-commentary simulacrum-voice (*spits*).
It is more helpful to understand scientific register as a variety of language, or "sociolect," acquired through extended exposure and socialization (Labov, 1966; Halliday and Martin, 1993; Bekker et al., 2001; Snow, 2010).
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